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Private JOHN LONGSON

Service Number: 4461987
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Durham Light Infantry

6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 09 July 1944

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

JERUSALEM WAR CEMETERY, CHOUAIN

Row B. 3.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Beatrice Longson, of Glossop, Derbyshire.
  • Personal Inscription HONEST AND TRUE IN HEART AND MIND BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES LEFT BEHIND
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Buried or commemorated at

JERUSALEM WAR CEMETERY, CHOUAIN
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 48
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